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Angela Dae, who is a granddaughter of Helen Bush, who died in the accident, read a statement during the sentencing. Angela Dae also is a granddaugther of Teenette Dae, 72, who was seriously injured in the crash.

“After the crash, I was angry because it was the recklessness of one person who put us in this havoc,” Dae said.

Dae described her grandmother Bush as a “wonderful, generous and God-fearing woman.” She also told Baricevic about her grandmother Dae’s recuperation from a broken spine and pelvis.

Bush and Teenette Dae were in a white 2013 Nissan traveling south on 17th Street in East St. Louis when Brooks, driving a black 1987 Monte Carlo, failed to stop at a stop sign and struck the Nissan at a high rate of speed, according to police accounts.